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Static Code Analysis and Custom FxCop Rules for Enterprise ASP.Net Development

Over the last couple months I've been doing a bit of work with FxCop and Static Code Analysis. If you remember playing with FxCop back in the day, it was a cool tool to check for possible design, localization, performance, and security issues with Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 18, 2008 8:40 PM by donxml | 3 Comments

Filed under: .Net, Open Source

Mixing Object, Functional and Aspect Oriented Programming

I spent the last week in Seattle and Redmond, attending both the MVP Summit and the ALT.Net Conference, and spent the majority of time discussing the future of programming, both on the .Net platform and other platforms. By Saturday night, my brain Read More... Posted Sunday, April 20, 2008 11:57 PM by donxml | 6 Comments

Filed under: .Net, .Net Communities, LINQ VBx

Austin ALT.Net Conference 2007

I'll be at the first ALT.Net Conference in Austin this weekend. I'll be getting in around 12:30PM Friday and staying at the conference hotel, Holiday Inn Austin NW. I was hoping to have my new transformation framework built on .Net 3.5 ready to demo, Read More... Posted Thursday, October 04, 2007 5:46 PM by donxml | 0 Comments

Filed under: .Net, Community Events

Implementing IEnumerable(Of T) and IEnumerable in Visual Basic.Net

OK, this is one that gets me every time I switch back to Visual Basic from C#, and is one of the times that I find C# much easier to work with. Even with all the XML Literal goodness in Visual Basic 9, these types of things make me want to just code in Read More... Posted Thursday, September 27, 2007 9:38 PM by donxml | 1 Comments

Filed under: .Net

Three More New Jersey Locals Added To The INETA Speakers Bureau

INETA recently announced that they are adding 15 new members to the INETA Speakers Bureau , and there are 3 New Jersey locals on that list. Joining Miguel Castro and Sam Gentile (who moved to NJ last year) are Nick Landry (he lives in NJ now), J. Ambrose Read More... Posted Thursday, September 06, 2007 10:07 AM by donxml | 6 Comments

Filed under: .Net, New Jersey Developer Community Events, .Net Communities

DNR TV and LINQ to XML

There has (finally) been some hype around VB 9's XML Literal stuff. Cory Smith noticed it, and yesterday, Scott Hanselman blogged about them . Last week I recorded a 2 part episode on LINQ to XML and VB's XML Literals for .Net Rocks TV (DNRTV), and Carl Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 28, 2007 12:08 PM by donxml | 1 Comments

Filed under: .Net, XML, LINQ, LINQ VBx

Scott Hanselman And Jesse Liberty Join Microsoft (Feels Like Am I The Last Of The Mohicans)

I case you haven't heard, Scott Hanselman recently announced that he is joining Microsoft as a Program Manager in DevDiv, and Jesse Liberty joined Microsoft at the beginning of the month as a Senior Program Manager in the Silverlight group. Sometimes, Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 25, 2007 2:54 PM by donxml | 4 Comments

Filed under: .Net, .Net Communities

Sharepoint and Biztalk Job Syndicate

If you are a developer that specializes in Sharepoint (2003 or 2007), or Biztalk (2004, 2006, 2006R2), and lives in the New Jersey, New York City, Conn. area, I'm putting together an informal "Job Syndicate". Basically, a loose network of individuals Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 12, 2007 11:45 AM by donxml | 1 Comments

Filed under: .Net, .Net Communities, Sharepoint

Senior .Net Positions in Brooklyn

Filed under: .Net, .Net Communities

Using LinkedIn For TechEd 2007

I'm you are a member of the social network site LinkedIn and will be attending TechEd Orlando 2007 , you might want to check out TechEd's social networking site, TechEd Connect . I'm guessing that the very same people that use LinkedIn would be interested Read More... Posted Saturday, June 02, 2007 8:45 AM by donxml | 0 Comments

Filed under: .Net, TechEd, .Net Communities

Party with Palermo: Tech Ed 2007 edition

What's a Microsoft event with Palermo Party? The MVP Summit event was way, way, way over the top. I'll be at TechEd 2007, and wouldn't miss this. Here are the details: Party with Palermo: Tech Ed 2007 edition June 3rd, 2007 @ 7PM - 11PM Glo Lounge: http://www.gloloungeorlando.com/ Read More... Posted Thursday, May 10, 2007 11:27 AM by donxml | 0 Comments

Filed under: .Net, TechEd

Microsoft Web Experiences Events in NYC, LA, and Denver

If you want to find out about Microsoft’s next generation of technologies such as Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow, IIS 7, ASP.NET Ajax, and you happen to live near New York City, LA or Denver, Read More... Posted Thursday, May 10, 2007 11:17 AM by donxml | 0 Comments

Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), .Net Communities, Sharepoint

TestMatrix - Enhanced Support For Test Driven Development and Unit Testing In Visual Studio

As most of my long time readers know, I'm a die hard TestDriven.Net guy. I've known Jamie since meeting him back at PDC 2003, and have been promoting his Visual Studio integrated testing tool since it came out. So, to get me to blog about another Read More... Posted Monday, April 30, 2007 10:59 AM by donxml | 2 Comments

Filed under: .Net, VSX, TDD

Visual Studio Extensibility (VSX) Webcast May 3

In case you haven’t heard (either thru James Lau's blog or Josh Holmes' blog ) I’ll be doing a webcast on Visual Studio Extensibility at 9AM Pacific time (12PM Eastern), May 3, 2007 titled: Do-It-Yourself Tools Inside Visual Studio Read More... Posted Monday, April 30, 2007 10:02 AM by donxml | 2 Comments

Filed under: .Net, TechEd, VSX

Misleading Usage Quote For Visual Studio Team System

I just ran across the FTPOnline article Reporting on Vista Security and the VS Road Map and the following quote by Prashant Sridharan, Senior Product Manager for Visual Studio is very misleading: Rosario, with the first community beta due at the end of Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 18, 2007 1:01 PM by donxml | 4 Comments

Filed under: .Net

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